But They Are Cutting Taxes…
So why aren’t businesses moving to the South? Gee, maybe this has something to do with it: ‘Brain-eating amoeba’ found in water supply near New Orleans:
US health officials have confirmed the presence of a ‘brain-eating’ amoeba in the water supply of several communities near New Orleans.
Ascension Parish and St Bernard Parish have each discovered Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that enters through the nose and attacks the brain.
Officials have begun a 60 day “chlorine burn” to kill off the deadly pathogen.
This is the way it works – when you cut taxes, you reduce the ability of the government to provide services like clean water. If you don’t have the money to buy the chlorine necessary to disinfect the water supply, you will get disease.
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Back in the late 1960’s, while I was visiting my cousins in central Lousiana, they took me down to the local municipal pool for a swim. It was your standard small concrete pool as found in the better motels of the time — but the water was muddy green.
Pumps use power, filters have to be replaced, and you sure don’t expect them to waste money on chemicals. Actually in the late ’60s a lot of facilities were abandoned because ‘the wrong people might want to use them’.
“US health officials have confirmed the presence of a ‘brain-eating’ amoeba in the water supply of several communities near New Orleans.”
“The amoeba’s presence was evident at highest levels in the most conservative neighborhoods and in City Council chambers,” NOLA.com did not report. 😈
Given that NOLA.com is actually owned by the absentee owners of the newspaper in New Orleans, they don’t report on local issues as much as they once did when it was locally owned. After Katrina the local infrastructure still hasn’t been repaired.